Knicks parade live updates: News, time, route map, street closures, and updates from Canyon of Heroes

Tony Patterson, who dyed his beard orange for the celebration, flew in all the way to New York City from California on Wednesday night and will be heading back tonight after the Knicks championship parade.

“It’s been 53 years and I’ve been a Knicks fan for that long,” the LA-based filmmaker, 62, told The Post from the parade route, where he’d been standing since 1:30 a.m.

“It’s huge for the city. Everybody’s always nice but they’re nicer now. There’s kindness,” he added.

Patterson said he took one day off of work just for the celebration.

The Post’s Craig McCarthy captured a crowd of Knicks fans chanting, “Let’s go Knicks” inside the World Trade Center’s Oculus as they made their way to the ticker-tape parade.

New York City history was made on June 13 after the Knicks took the title of NBA Champions, quenching a 53-year championship drought.

And on Thursday, the City of Dreams will celebrate with its long-awaited ticker-tape parade — maybe the largest the city has ever seen.

Ticker-tape is where massive amounts of confetti are thrown from the windows of skyscrapers. But don’t expect orange and blue, as The Post previously reported, it will be thousands of pounds of tiny white shreds.

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A pair of high school sweethearts are bitter rivals in their loyalties to their favorite sports teams, but their unwavering support for the newest NBA champions is a true love story.

The Knicks have been a throughline for Queens couple Danielle Kuchinskas and Alex Frawley’s romance, capped with seeing the dramatic, history-making Game 5 in San Antonio a full-circle moment.

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Knicks fans packed out trains to get an early spot in the team’s first-ever ticker tape parade in Manhattan — many planning to fuel on a star player’s now-famous bodega order.

“We all want a piece of the Brunson, egg and cheese,” Greyson Rizzo, 25, told The Post on a packed Long Island Railroad train.

Rizzo woke up at 3 a.m. to make the 4:30 train with his brother, Gavin.

“I think New York is more united than America right now,” Gavin, 28, said.

Die-hard fans jumped on early trains to New York City so they could get a good spot ahead of the ticker-tape parade. Commuters were spotted traveling on the LIRR before the sun rose as crowds walloped Penn Station to travel downtown ahead of the parade which begins at 10 a.m. ET.

Knicks fans eager to celebrate their team’s first championship in 53 years could start lining up as early as 6 a.m. to grab a viewing spot for Thursday’s ticker-tape parade.

Access points for what Mayor Zohran Mamdani said could be the city’s largest parade ever will open at least four hours before the festivities kick off in downtown Manhattan at 10 a.m., officials said Wednesday.

Revelers will be screened, and there are restrictions on what fans can bring to the parade, including bags, glass or metal water bottles, “weapons,” pets, umbrellas, coolers, strollers, and bikes or scooters. Plastic water bottles will be allowed.

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Viewing pens will open at 6 a.m., though the city suggested parade-goers show up just at least two hours early, stressing that streets along the route will be closed to crossing when it begins.

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It’s Christmas in June.

Thousands of pounds of tiny white confetti shreds will rain down on the city as the champion New York Knicks parade through lower Manhattan for the biggest ticker-tape parade in Big Apple history.

A whopping 1.25 tons of confetti will be tossed onto the Canyon of Heroes in the Knicks’ honor — which is a quarter more of the paper than what was dumped for the New York Liberty’s parade two years ago.

The Downtown Alliance ordered the extra paper shreds — equal in weight to a Honda Civic — after taking note of just how massive watch parties across the five boroughs had grown during the nail-biting NBA Finals.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced an open lottery for ecstatic New York Knicks fans to get free tickets to a Championship Ceremony at City Hall after a celebratory ticker-tape parade.

“The Knicks belong to New York City. And this championship belongs to the people who waited 53 years for it,” Mamdani wrote on X.

“That’s why we’re giving away 600 free tickets to Thursday’s Championship Ceremony at City Hall following the ticker-tape parade.”

The sweepstakes opened on Tuesday evening and will close on Wednesday at 11 a.m., the Hizzoner said. New Yorkers will know if they were randomly selected for two tickets to the ceremony on Wednesday.

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Knicks fans were paying through the teeth for a seat at Madison Square Garden during the teams NBA championship run — and some aren’t done doling out the cash.

Fans are willing to pay up to $750 to have someone to save them a spot along the Canyon of Heroes on Thursday when the Big Apple hometown heroes get a ticker-tape parade to celebrate, according to market research by a soon-to-be launched online marketplace.

Airtasker, which started an NYC pilot program in December, said one fan asked for someone “to wait in line for three spots on Broadway and Barclay for the Knicks parade” from midnight to 8 a.m. on Thursday, and was willing to pay $750 for the service.

Another fan had a more reasonable budget, offering $100, but leaving the “make an offer” option open.

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Walt Frazier and Patrick Ewing will finally get their parade.

The Knicks’ biggest legends, among other team alumni, will travel down the Canyon of Heroes during Thursday morning’s championship parade in lower Manhattan, The Post has learned.

Frazier led the Knicks to two titles more than 50 years ago, but he and his teammates never partook in a parade. In 1970, the Knicks were honored with a ceremony at Gracie Mansion.

In 1973, roughly 2,000 fans joined them at a celebration at City Hall.

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They’re testing Knicks fans’ patience.

Thousands of Big Apple teens will miss out on the Knicks historic ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes — because they’ll be stuck in class taking Regents exams.

The scheduling snafu means students in the New York metro area will be stretching their brains while the rest of the city is losing their minds at the citywide victory celebration for the NBA champs on Thursday.

“Honestly, it sucks,” said Jael Rosado, a freshman at LaGuardia High School in Manhattan. “I would’ve loved to go. If there were a way to take it either later or earlier, possibly, I would have loved it.”

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